BBC News
Andrew appeared live on the BBC News Channel on Monday, 29th January 2024, to speak with Ben Thompson about the issues with AI deepfakes, following controversy surrounding deep faked images of Taylor Swift that were circulated on Twitter in January 2024, leading the social media network to ban the ability to search for “Taylor Swift”.
Below are Andrew’s talking points for the segment
The Taylor Swift Fake AI controversy has once again raised the issue of deepfakes – something that has been around for a while. Still, with the advent of new Generative AI tools available to almost anyone, we can expect to see more of this happening.
Established platforms already have robust controls in place, so it is unlikely that we will see more deepfakes like the Taylor Swift one produced by well-known platforms; however, open-source generative AI tools are already capable of this.
This means it will be much harder to regulate, so the calls for regulation by the US Congress go only part of the way to addressing the issue. My concern is that with 65 countries and around 40% of the world’s population going to the polls this year, we should expect to see more deepfakes appearing and misinformation will become a real issue.